"Question. Which is the Sabbath day?""Answer. Saturday is the Sabbath day." | "Question. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?" | "Answer. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because...the | Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." |
"Question. Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals or precepts?" "Answer. Had she not such power, she could not have done that | in which all modern religionists agree with her, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no scriptural authority." |
"Question. How prove you that the church has power to command feast and holy days?" "Answer. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, | which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church." "Question. How prove you that?" | "Answer. Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the | church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin; and by not keeping the rest (of the feasts) by her command,they again deny,in fact, the same power." |
THE LAW OF GOD | AS CHANGED BY MAN |
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Me. |
have strange gods before Me. |
graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the child- ren unto the third and fourth generat- ion of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments. |
Lord thy God in vain. |
LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. |
Sabbath day. |
holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. |
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thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
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against thy neighbor. |
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against thy neighbor. |
wife. |
house, thou shalt not covet thy neigh- bour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. |
goods. |
Exodus 20:3-17 | (Butler's Catechism, page 28.) |